Researchers think they can now explain exactly what various optical illusions work. They theorize it is because the brain has evolved to do a slight fast forward projection on things we are seeing, it anticipates what should be there well

China has switched from primarily slow and careful rescue efforts to now moving big quantities of rubble with heavy equipment in an effort to locate bodies and remove them to prevent diseases outbreaks. In addition they are both receiving and

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Still an undergraduate, Stanford-bound Betty Mbom has already started a minority-mentoring program at her university.

Roger Highfield recalls how he could not utter a nursery rhyme as part of his brain was turned off by a magnet.

A British team is to test a home "brain stimulation" method to short-circuit migraines before they become disabling, writes Roger Highfeld.

New strategy could reduce CO2 emissions from coal plants

One of the universe's most extreme objects just got a bit stranger